Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>looking at the post from the right wingers here. why is it they seem so misinformed?<<<


"To support the president and to accept that he took the US to war based on mistaken assumptions likely creates substantial cognitive dissonance, and leads Bush supporters to suppress awareness of unsettling information about prewar Iraq.”

This tendency of Bush supporters to ignore dissonant information extends to other realms as well.

“The roots of the Bush supporters’ resistance to information,” according to Steven Kull, “very likely lie in the traumatic experience of 9/11 and equally in the near pitch-perfect leadership that President Bush showed in its immediate wake. This appears to have created a powerful bond between Bush and his supporters--and an idealized image of the President that makes it difficult for his supporters to imagine that he could have made incorrect judgments before the war, that world public opinion could be critical of his policies or that the President could hold foreign policy positions that are at odds with his supporters.”

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brunitedstatescanadara/87.php?nid=&id=&pnt=8...


Or in plain english.......9/11 transformed 30% of americans into emotional basket cases.